Bruce Schneier comments on the government’s intention to seek greater surveillance capabilities: On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies are changing, the administration argues, and modern digital systems aren’t as easy to monitor as traditional telephones. The government…
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Can You Be Forced to Turn Over Your Social Network Passwords in a Civil Case?
Bruce Boyden comments on Romano v. Steelcase, reported previously on this site (here) Let’s say you’re the plaintiff in a civil case against a neighbor, an employer, or a company you’ve done business with. And let’s say that you have a Facebook account. The other side believes that some of your Facebook communications might be…
UK case law: DFT v TFD and “super-injunctions”
On Monday 27 September 2010, Mrs Justice Sharp handed down an important judgment in a privacy case which had previously been the subject of a so-called “super injunction”. The judgment in the case of DFT v TFD ([2010] EWHC 2335 (QB)) concerned a blackmail case in which a woman was threatening to make public private and…
Sale of Personal Data for Direct Marketing — How Many Tentacles Can an Octopus Have?
Gabriela Kennedy and Heidi Gleeson write about the Octopus breach previously mentioned on this site. The recent large scale sale of personal data by Hong Kong’s Octopus Holdings Ltd. for the purposes of direct marketing is currently being investigated by the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner and has prompted calls for reforms to the data protection…